Sentences with phrase «mayor in a news conference»
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long is calling on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to delay the New York City marathon scheduled for this Sunday, though the mayor in a news conference this afternoon insisted the event continue as planned.
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The state should work to release $ 200 million in funding that was allocated to NYCHA in last year's budget, but which it has not yet received, Dean Fuleihan, the city's first deputy mayor, said at a City Hall news conference.
At a November 4 news conference, Gotham Gazette asked the mayor why he hadn't been vocal about voting and election reform earlier, in order to pressure Albany well ahead of the election, and what Governor Cuomo's role should be in pushing for reforms.
The call from Sen. Adriano Espaillat and city Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez and Assemblywoman Gabriela Rosa come after Gov. Chris Christie apologized in a lengthy news conference for his government and political aides shutting the bridge down in order to exact political retribution on the mayor of Fort Lee.
«Our administration and the city of New York have been incredibly lucky to have Dan in City Hall for the past six years, and I've personally been very lucky to have him sitting just six feet away from me,» the mayor said in a hastily scheduled news conference in the Blue Room of City Hall.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul will hold a news conference Friday in Syracuse to announce that she and Gov. Andrew Cuomo endorse Democrat Juanita Perez Williams for mayor.
Pressed on specifics by reporters Tuesday after an unrelated news conference on crime statistics, the mayor spoke only in generalities, saying he relied on lawyers to interpret what they could and couldn't do.
According to the City Hall report, a source told the publication Weiner will speak of his decision to end his bid for mayor at a news conference Wednesday in Brooklyn.
State Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa, who was featured Saturday as a speaker at the United Federation of Teachers annual Spring Conference in Midtown, told the Daily News it only makes sense for the mayor to continue calling the shots for public schools.
At a news conference, the mayor said that Gov. Cuomo's bill does not rid the state of its seniority - based layoff system in time for his plan to lay off 4,600 teachers this year.
LG Kathy Hochul will hold a news conference tomorrow in Syracuse to announce that she and Gov. Andrew Cuomo endorse Democrat and former Cuomo administration staffer Juanita Perez Williams for mayor.
The mayor stood up and ended the news conference at the 114th Precinct station house in Queens as a reporter pressed for details, asking: «Why can't you tell us why Ricardo Morales was fired?»
The announcement of Fariña's retirement came in a City Hall news conference hosted by the mayor and First Lady Chirlane McCray, along with three other key city officials flanking them.
«The people in the city have given me a mission,» the mayor declared at a City Hall news conference, saying that the governor's willingness to embrace a prekindergarten program was «encouraging,» but «different than what we intend to do.»
The supervisors and mayors of 24 towns and villages in the county wrote a letter to Mahoney and Cuomo outlining their concerns, in addition to the news conference.
The mayor deflected questions about those findings at a news conference in City Hall on proposed federal budget cuts.
He held an awkward news conference pledging to stay in the New York City mayor's race last week just after the disclosure he exchanged more lewd text messages with another woman — the same kind of scandal that cost him his congressional seat.
The mayor tried to rally support for his proposal at an annual conference of minority lawmakers in Albany in mid-February, the New York Daily News reported.
Mayor Bill de Blasio was in attendance for Cuomo's speech and, in a news conference afterward, praised certain aspects of it, such as Cuomo's promise to fight the federal tax overhaul, while taking a wait - and - see approach as the governor still did not unveil a congestion pricing scheme, and outlining a few of the city's top priorities for the upcoming state budget, like more funding for the mayor's plan to extend pre-school to all three - year - olds.
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Last fall, she convened a news conference to announce that she would not challenge Mayor Bill de Blasio's reelection in 2017, though associates of Moskowitz maintain that she still hopes to one day become mayor.
Jerry Natanine, community leader and former mayor of Clyde River, at a news conference in Ottawa in July following the Supreme Court of Canada ruling that upheld Inuit treaty rights in the Arctic.